Expert Opinion

Tuesday marked the close of another filing tax season for most Americans. Thousands of accountants whooped a shout of joy, papers were tossed in the air, and throngs of professionals ran out of their office buildings finally seeing the sun ...

The absence of a uniform standard for reporting investment performance presents a challenge for investors. As a rule, investment advisers are not required to report investment performance and, even if they do, there is no uniform standard for how the ...

Whether you are a transactional attorney inserting an indemnification clause into a contract, or a litigation attorney determining whether to sue on an indemnification provision, it is important to understand how New York courts distinguish between intra-party and third-party indemnification ...

The big unknown for municipal bond investors with the Trump administration is what changes will occur to personal tax brackets and the taxability of these bonds. Trump clearly wants lower taxes. His proposal is to reduce the top tax rate ...

Most foreigners arriving in the United States are greeted by Customs and Border Protection officers asking routine questions, such as the reason for the trip, where they’re staying and who they’re visiting. But the Trump administration is now considering a ...

Spring is finally here! The Paralegal Association of Rochester (“PAR”) is springing into the season with a variety of great events and seminars. If you would like to help the PAR Board of Directors plan future events, we would love ...

With the swearing-in last week of Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court’s configuration shifts to … a 4-4 balance with a single centrist justice as the swing vote. If that sounds familiar, it should. It’s been the normal state ...

On March 28, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dramatically shift course from the climate change focus of the Obama administration. The order has several components which will affect United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) climate regulations along ...

Even as the Trump administration begins to regress on criminal justice, states continue to find more rational and humane ways to handle crime. In New York, for example, which currently runs an unjustifiably harsh criminal justice system, reform is taking ...

As the 2016 filing deadline draws to a close, many taxpayers have noticed the additional information required by the Internal Revenue Service and many states in order to successfully submit a tax return. These extra steps required to file a ...

The Internet and cloud computing have drastically altered the legal landscape, including the expectations of legal consumers. Because of rapid advancements in technology and 24/7 access to information, the needs of legal clients are necessarily changing with the times. They ...

The latest victim of Trump administration cuts — the National Commission on Forensic Science — could have more accurately been called “The Commission to Help Forensics Become a Real Science.” That would better reflect the magnitude of the job handed ...